“The Golden Slipper” by Antanas Vaiciulaitis (1959)Ī Spell for Sleeping, poem by Alastair Reid “Sweetly the Waves Call to Me” by Pat Murphy The Hosting of the Sidhe, poem by William Butler Yeats (1893) Introduction by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold Here’s the Table of Contents for Volume I: Cherryh, John Gardner, and many others - and the very first short story by an unknown writer named Ellen Kushner.
#The elsewhere plus#
John Harrison, an Elric novelette by Michael Moorcock, an Islandia novelette by Austin Tappan Wright, plus stories by John Crowley, Gabriel García Márquez, Evangeline Walton, Pat Murphy, Janny Wurts, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Andrew J. It was copiously illustrated with interior artwork by Terri Windling, and contained a Viriconium Knights tale by M. The first volume in the Elsewhereseries was a mix of new stories and reprints. I was gobsmacked when we won the World Fantasy Award, and I’ve been editing anthologies ever since.
#The elsewhere series#
I brought my then-partner, Mark Arnold, into the project, and we named the series after the bookstore he’d previously owned in Ohio (where I had worked during my college years). I was only 22 at the time, and Ellen’s brilliant Basilisk was a very hard act to follow. Jim’s assignment was exciting, but also daunting. I was Jim’s assistant at the time, having taken over the job when Ellen left, and he basically said the same thing to me that he had said to her about Basilisk: “Publish any stories you want, just so long as you get them cheap.” The Elsewhereseries started like this: Jim Baen first saw the three pieces of cover art when George de Hoff was showing his portfolio around, liked them, bought the rights to them, then called me into his office and asked me to edit three fantasy anthologies to go with them. Jim thought I’d like her work, and that he wouldn’t have to pay her much… Terri, of course, essentially took over my job as fantasy expert for Jim a few months after I left Ace.Įllen reached out to Terri as we were fact checking the article, and in the process Terri gave me the fascinating back story on how she began her career as one of the most respected and admired editors in the field with the Elsewhereseries of anthologies, the first of which won the World Fantasy Award. Here’s what she said. She’d just come to town, and was showing her art portfolio around.
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It’s also how I met Terri Windling, who did the interior illustrations (which much more accurately represent the aesthetic of the stories). It’s an anthology I’m still really proud of. I didn’t discover that until I interviewed Ellen Kushner for my Tale of Two Covers article on her Basilisk anthology earlier this month. She’s also an author in her own right, with several highly regarded works to her credit, including the Mythopoeic Award-winning novel The Wood Wife, and a number of children’s books, such as The Raven Queen and The Winter Child.īut believe it or not, she got her start in this industry as an artist. As an editor at Ace she discovered and promoted first novels by Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and many other important authors with Ellen Datlow she co-edited 16 volumes of the seminal Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror from 1986–2003. She’s been awarded the World Fantasy Award nine times, and she’s also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the 2010 SFWA Solstice Award. Terri Windling is a superstar in the field of fantasy.